Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What does a swastika mean? During World War II, it meant the mechanical annihilation of an entire race of human beings--an act motivated by the highest form of vanity. But on the t-shirt of Sid Vicious, who knows what it means? It is shocking, stomach-twisting, and if nothing else, it is some kind of self-glorification that Vicious and his followers need...the self-glorification he saw in old war documentaries when he was in grammar school, ripping out toilet seats during recess...
...last eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach the people. His last synthesis before he descended into alcoholism and depression was to try to recreate...
...laxwomen from embarrassment. But the rest of the Harvard defense never had a chance. Every call seemed to go against the Crimson, who had no choice but to curb their normally aggressive play or pay the price. The New Hampshire team seized the opportunity to get in some vicious stick-checking, catching both Sailer and Stef Baum in the head...
...denounced Chinese who indulged in Western-style dancing or who "sold state secrets" to foreigners. As if on cue, city and provincial bosses quickly went on the attack against all political protest. China's press denounced "ultra-democracy," as well as the "black sheep" who helped "to launch vicious attacks on party and state leaders." The Peking Daily dismissed human rights as a mere "bourgeois slogan...
Fish, the only living member of the Walter Camp All-Time All-American football team and eight-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, reminisced about a vicious Yale-Harvard basketball game in 1908 before awarding the first Hamilton Fish Most Improved Player Award to Donald Fleming, a freshman who averaged almost 12 points per outing...